Re: SUSE-Sparc and Enterprise 250/3500 Servers

On Tue, 25 Nov 2003 15:57:10 +0200
"Rob Hartzenberg" <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi list,
> 
> I have been tasked with looking after a few sun boxes.
> I would like to reinstall and use linux instead as the security on
> these machines is perhaps not as it should be.
> 
> Is SUSE-Sparc 7.3 still the lastest and greatest for these machines?
> What sort of problems can I expect during install and running them as
> web/mail servers?
> 
> Any suggestings, RTFM's (provided you show me where) etc are welcome.
> 
> Thanks in Advance,
> -Rob

Yep this is the most recent one from SuSE -snip-
The only obscurity I faced during the install was the partitioning. It
was unable to handle HDD-s not having SUN disklabel on them (yemmm I
used them previously in a PC) thus I needed the Debian Woody sparc
edition's boot and root floppies to make the necessary partitioning and
formatting.
In the other hand as server the 7.3 is ideal, I use as sec dns and
backup mail server. Mmmmmm yast2 was not handy at all... Yast seems to
work better. But frankly mcedit is the best ... 


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